Machine for making boxes from paper and for filling same with cigarettes, &amp;c.



'PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

E. T. POLLARD. MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, 6w. APPLIOATION mm) mm. 27. 1903.

18 SHEETS-SHEET 1,

N0 MODEL.

No. 775,148. PATEN'I'ED NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH OIGARETTBS, 6w.

I APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903. N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 2.

Wif was. I [Wei/2;. 6 PM No. 775,148. PATENTBD NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES PROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, 8w. APPLIUATION'PILLED we. 2?. 1903.

N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SEER? 3.

No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

- E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER 'AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTBS, 6w.

APPLIOATION IILIID AUG. 27. 1903. N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 4.

Wr'z n asses fave/2hr No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. I5, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH CIGARETTES, &o. urmommx rmm we. 27. 1903.

110 menu. 13 SHEETS-SHEET 5.

PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

E. Ti""POLLARD. MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH CIGARETTES, 6w.

- APPLICATION TILED AUG. 27. 1903. N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 6.

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No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH UIGARETTE3, &0.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903.

18 SHEBTSSHEET 7 NO MODEL.

No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903.

18 SHEETS-SHEBT 8.

N0 MODEL.

Wz'fnewes I No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH OIGARBTTES, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED AUG 27 1903 N0 MODEL. 7 18 SHEETS-SHEET 9.

No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E.T.POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, &0.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903. N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 10.

I I I E E No. 775,148. PATENTED NO-V. 15, 1904. B. T. POLLARD.

MAGHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTBS, &o.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903. H0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 11.

No. 775,148. BATENTED NOV. 15, 1904.

E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES PROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARBTTES, 8x0. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903.

18 SHEETS-SHEET 12.

NO MODEL.

. No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH OIGARETTES, 6w.

APPLIOATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903. no MODEL. 18 sums-sum 13.

a @ii- No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES PROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, &c. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 21. 1903.

18 SHEETS-SHEET 14.

N0 MODEL No. 775,148. PATENTBD NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, 6:0.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903. N0 MODEL. 18 SHEETS-SHEET 15.

No. 775,148. PATENTBD NOV. 15, 1904. E. T. POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES PROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH OIGARETTES, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903.

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H0 MODEL.

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MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH GIGARETTES, 6w.

APPLICATION FILED we. 27. 1903.

18 SHEETS SHEE'I 17.

NO MODEL.

No. 775,148. PATENTED NOV. 15, 1904. E.T.POLLARD.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH CIGARETTES, &0.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 27. 1903.

N0 MODEL. 1B SHEETS-SHEET 18.

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PATENT OFFICE.

EDiVARD THOh'IAS POLLARI), OF LONDON, ENGLAND.

MACHINE FOR MAKING BOXES FROM PAPER AND FOR FILLING SAME WITH CIGARETTES, 8L0.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,148, dated November 15, 1904.

Application filed August 27, 1903- To 1] 11/71/0711, it Tn/LZ/ concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD THOMAS POL- LARD, engineer, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 8 Regent street, London, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented a certain new and useful Hachine for Making Boxes from Paper and for Filling the Same with Cigarettes or other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine which shall make a box or wrapper from paper or cardboard, fill the box with cigarettes or other articles, and deliver the filled box. The paper is fed forward intermittently from a roll by feed-wheels, is printed, and then passes between a plunger and die, which score it for the subsequent folding and cut it to the required shape, but without separating the blanks one from the other. The paper then passes under a revolving wheel on whose periphery are formed recesses. The wheel is as broad as the height of the finished box, and the width and depth of the recesses are equal to the width and thickness of the finished box. A plunger rises intermittently and cuts off the leading blank, forcing it at the same time into that recess which is at the time at the bottom of the wheel, so that the front lies at the bottom of the recess and the sides lie against its sides. The wheel has a step-by-step movement imparted to it in any convenient way, and the blank is first carried past a pasting or gumming mechanism, which pastes it, and the backis then turned in. All this time the top has not been folded and leaves the box open. Above the wheel a hopper and filler are provided. The hopper receives a vibratory motion, so as to keep the filler beneath it constantly filled with cigarettes, for instance. The filler is fitted with narrow partitions, and each of the spaces between these partitions is filled with cigarettes, one above the other. When the wheel comes to rest, a mouthpiece enters the mouth of the box and holds it open while a plunger pushes the lowest row or rows of cigarettes into the box, the cigarettes being guided by the mouthpiece. As the wheel moves on the top is turned over onto the back, to which it is held (No model.)

by paste, thus closing the box, or a tongue may be inserted into a slit in the back. The recess next comes opposite a chute or trough, into which the box now filled and closed is ejected by a pusher.

Though the machine has been described for packing up cigarettes, it is obvious that it may be used for cigars, sweets, or the like.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side. elevation, Fig. 2 a plan, and Fig. 3 an end view, of a machine constructed according to this invention. Fig. 1 is a view of the paper blank, and Figs. 5 and 6 views of the plunger and die which cut it. Figs. 7 and 8 show end and side views of the wheel, in which the box is operated upon. Fig. 9 is a plan of the plunger which forces the paper into the wheel. Fig. 10 is an end view showing the method of effecting several of the movements. Fig. 11 shows the pasting mechanism. Figs. 12 and 13 show the folder for the bottom flap. Figs. 12 and 13 are face views of the same, and Fig. 13" is a side elevation. Figs. 14, 15, and 16 are side view, end view, and plan of the hopper; and Fig. 17 is a plan showing the cigarette-pusher and other parts. Figs. A, B, O, l), E illustrate the formation of the box. Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the machine when modified to make a box from the blank shown in Fig. A. Figs. 4:, 5, (5 show this modified form of blank with plunger and die. Figs. 18 to 25 show in detail the modifications in the machine for such a blank, Fig. 18 being a part side elevation of the opposite side to Fig. 1, Fig. 19 an end view similar to Fig. 3, and Fig. 20 a view of the mold-wheel from the opposite side to Fig. 19. Fig. 21 is a part plan similar to Fig. 2. Figs. 22, 23, and 23 are detached views of a folding device, and Figs. 24: and 25 detached views of the device for closing the box. Figs. F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O illustrate the formation of the box.

In Figs. 1 to 17 and Figs. A to E, 1 is the paper passing beneath and printed by the type-forms 2, pivoted to the frame and oper- 9 ated by the links 3 at 5, the last of which carries the truck 6, moving in the groove of the cam T on the shaft 8, driven by the chain 9 from the main shaft 10. As the form moves away from the paper it is inked by the rollers 11, carried by the spring-arms 12, operated by the link 13, truck 14, and cam on the shaft 8. The rollers take ink from the table 16, which is rotated through a small angle at each operation by the pawl 17, moved by the link 18, and which receives ink from the well 19. All this printing mechanism is of a well-known type and requires no further explanation. The paper after printing passes beneath the plunger 20, reciprocated in guides'21 on the frame by the link 22 from the strap of the eccentric 23 on the shaft 8. This plunger cuts the blank shown in Fig. 4 and consisting of the back a, bottom I), front 0, top (Z, top flap 6, sides ff, side flaps g g, and wings 72 it. It also scores the paper along the four transverse dotted lines a; but it does not sever the blank from the web following, to which it is still connected by its top flap along the dotted line 7a. The plunger and die are made in several pieces to admit of sharpening the various cutting edges. The plunger and die are seen in-Figs. 5 and 6. The paper passes under guides 24 to the feedwheel 25, fast with the wheel 26, intermittently operated by the bowl 27 on the arm 28 of the shaft 29, driven by bevel-gear from the shaft 30, which is also driven by bevel-gear from the main shaft 10. The shaft 29 has on it a locking-wheel 31, which looks the wheel.

' wheel and is ridged to score the paper along the longitudinal dotted lines 7'. The blank now arrives beneath the wheel 34 of the width of the front 0 of the blank and fast with,

the wheel 35, intermittently rotated by the bowl 36 on the arm 37, fast with the shaft 30, on which is also the stop-wheel 38, all so arranged that the wheel 34 receives an eighth of a revolution for every revolution of'the shaft 30. On the circumference of the wheel 34 are molds or recesses 39, into which the i portion 0 of the blank is forced by the plunf ger 40. A cam 41 on the shaft 30 rocks an arm 42 on the spindle 43, carried in bearings 44 on the frame and having an arm 45, linked by the link 46 to the stem of the plunger 40,

so that the plunger is moved up against 1118.

spring 47 to sever the top flap e of the leading blank from the back a of the next blank and toforce the blank into the recess, the front 0 being against the bottom of the recess and the sides ff against the sides thereof, as shown in Fig. A, the wheel of course being stationary while the plunger is in operation. As the blank rises it meets with two fixed knives 401, which cut slits if in the blank, (see Fig.

4,) and so cut the wings h h free from the back and bottom, so that they now remain attached to the sides f f only. As soon as the plunger 40 has been withdrawn from the blank in the recess 39 the wheel 34 moves on one step. As it moves the two Wings h it are bent in, as shown in Fig. B, the leading one by coming against a fixed incline 48 and the following wing by the action of awiper 481 on the spindle 49, which is continuously rotated in fixed bearings by a chain 50 from a chain-wheel 51 on the shaft 30. The wheel 34 now stops, and the tips of the tWo side flaps g are caught by radial slots 52 in the roller 53, fast on the continuously-rotated spindle 49 and dipping into the paste-trough 54, so that the tips of both side flaps are pasted on each side. The wheel 34 now moves on a step, after which the back a is turned over so as to lie parallel to the front 0, as shown in Fig. C. This is effected by the action of the folder 55, carried on the spindle 56 and rocked at the proper time, as follows: On the spindle 49 is a disk 57, carrying a pin 58, working in a slot in the long lever 59, Whose function will be described later and which is pivoted at 60. This pivot 60 carries an arm 61, which knocks against the folder 55 to turn over the back a, as shown in Figs. 12, 12, 13, 13, and 13 the folder being brought back by the spring 62. The wheel 34 now again moves on a step, and the recess 39, whose progress is being followed, passes beneath a cover 63, which retains the box in its recess for the rest of its journey. In order that the back a may not open out, and so get torn by the cover 63, the arm 64, carrying the shield and pivoted at 66, .is moved at the right time by the cam 67 on the shaft 30, so that the shield 65 may hold the back down as the box enters the cover. When the wheel 34 next stops, the side flaps are turned down onto the back, as shown in Fig. D, to which they adhere by reason of the paste on them. In order to keep the box in shape, a former 68 is thrust into the box by the arm 69, operated by a crankpin 70 on a crank 71 on the shaft 8, working in a slot in the arm 710, pivoted at 711. T/Vhen the former has been inserted, the side flaps are i pressed down onto the back by a pair of wipers 72, acting through an aperture in the cover 63 and carried by spindles 73, geared together by toothed wheels 74, one of the spindles 73 being rocked by an arm 75, pivoted to the link l 76, operated by a pin 77 on a disk 78, fast with the spindle 49. To hold the side flaps down as the box passes again under the cover, a blade-spring 79 is pulled down onto them by the link 80, pivoted to one of the ejector-arms hereinafter described. The next movement of the wheel brings the box into the position in i which it is to befilled with cigarettes. These 1 are contained in the hopper 81, which is moved l backward and forward above a deliverer 82 by l the lever 59, already referred to. The deliverer is divided into, say, five compartments, which are kept constantly filled with cigarettes, the bottom row or rows of which are pushed into the box by the pusher 83, reciprocated by a branch 84 from the arm 69, al-

l l l l l l ready described. This pusher 83 moves With- 

